More elliptical and stretching for me at the gym shortly. DH is headed out to run a few miles. He PR'd the HM last weekend with a 1:38. I think I forgot to mention that in all the Boston excitement. He says thanks again to the Chicago forumites for their expert advice. He will buy the first round in Boston! Anyway, I'm jealous he's running today, but know it's best to hold off a bit longer.

mdawg - congrats to your DH on the PR! Looks like it was a banner weekend. Smart to hold off.

mini - Well, 1 mile time trials will do that to you. I've never had horse. Probably a bit gamey. Enjoy the day off.

Slept like crap. Maybe due to some allergy medication. Now I'm tired and sore from moving crap yesterday and have zero desire to run a 10k and then tag 5 miles on afterwards. Oh well. Let's see what I can drag out of this old carcass. It won't be pretty,

Sorry I cannot share the running in the rain love. It was fairly miserable. The run did go well so I cannot complain about that. I felt pretty fatigued at 10, but a gel and water break helped get me through the next five. The worst thing is I miscalculated my route and 15 ended about .75 miles from my car. So that last bit of walking was not fun. But as a friend reminded me, it's not about today. Four weeks from now is what counts.

Light rain out this way so wondering if badger is getting wet in his 2nd 50K.

RA: Hope you shed that bag of sand and run fast.

Mini: Way to replace those calories!

Morgan: Hope the 15 went well

Mdawg: Congrats to DH! Save me a beer as all you Speedy McSpeedsters will be on to rounds 7 or 8 by the time I finish the race! Glad there are lots of flights. As I only have one airline that I can fly and certain times that I want, I have less flexibility than most. It's more the coming home on Tuesday that worries me than getting there. I do buy a ticket so try to book as far out and as as cheaply as possible. A few years on the 6:15 am flight got me going this year.

Ebunny: Congrats on your race! Still a great time! My family is not coming, but the kids do have Friday and Monday off for Easter and won't have activities because of that. Was feeling a bit guilty, but not too guilty.

Morning. I am so sore from my piddly 18 miles yesterday, I feel like I ran a HM PR. I will have to limber up a bit before I go out for my 7 today. I am doing my peak weeks with speed and mileage, that could be a part of it. Next week is the last peak week, and I notice it's just a tad easier.

Morgan - Sorry about the rain, I am also not a rain runner. It's the soggy shoes that really get to me.

Mdawg - I am really debating holding off today. I know recovery is a logical part of getting faster. I'm not good enough at the recovery portion.

Mini - I can relate to the thirst level, mine was insane yesterday. I think I drank over a gallon of fluids in the afternoon. And today my lips are still chap. That's one way I tell my hydration level. It seems like I dehydrate so easily these days.

RA - Good luck with your race, it is so hard to run when you start out sore and tired.

Taylorma1 - I have that same accumulated tired leg feeling. The taper is just around the corner though.

Maps - Ack! Totally slipped my mind it was Easter weekend in all the excitement. Kids don't have off school, they may have to tough it out at their Dad's house. Now I can add in a little Catholic guilt. Hope my parents weren't planning on coming out here. Maybe I can hook all that group up and I can slip away solo.

H2H - Everyone writing about RD is making me so jealous. But I think I can at least pull out a slow 7. Can't think of any witty saying for the slow and easy miles

Well, it started to rain after my prior post and did not stop. We debated bagging the race but decided to run. 55F so actually wasn't bad.

I was 2nd from the gun. The lead guy was just gone. It's a 2 loop course so the 10k started a slightly different spot so we joined the 5k with the slow runners... I was dodging jogging strollers for 1/2 mile. Caught DW. She was going fast in the 5k. I continued chasing done 5k runners, almost caught the lead woman. Once I started the 2nd loop I was running solo and lost focus so my pace suffered for a couple of miles as I was feeling like crap. I picked it up for the last mile as couple of guys were closing on me. Held on to finish 2nd OA. Folks thought I'd won, mainly because I was 5 mins behind the winner!!

I ran 38:31. I'd hoped for sub 39 so pleased with the effort as it somewhat lines up with the 1:25 HM. Likely could have run a bit faster with more competition to push me.

Splits went as follows: 6:03, 6:11, 6:11, 6:27, 6:23, 6:08. These are Garmin splits. I heard 18:20 @ 3 miles and 37:11 at 6 miles, which may or may not be correct.

DW came 2nd OA female in the 5k with a PR time of 20:40! That's a 26 second PR for her!! Good job we decided not to bag the race

Coach says I need to run 5 more... not sure my legs are working at the moment...

nice run RA. After all your whining pre-race I was expecting a craptastic effort - but that was a good performance - especially after the half last week.

Mini - you eastern european folks will eat anything. Was there vodka involved ?

H2H - congrats on the 60.

Maps - hope you manage to avoid the lurgy

Maureen - 18 miles is NOT piddly !!! I blame the speed - that always leaves the legs a bit heavier.

Morgan - I'd have run that last 0.75 to avoid the walk... sorry about the weather.

Congrats to Mr Dawg !

20 for me done. 12 of them progressing (7.22 to 6.22 - nicely symmetric). 20 days time and I'm done with marathons for the year.

And I *LOVE* running in the rain. It's not something I get to do very often - except for this week. Crazy weather here. At least I've been able to turn the sprinkler system off for the week and save myself a bit on the bill...

Nice run RA. And congrats to Mrs. RA! Did she get good swag for her placing?

H2H: I'm looking at Tuesday for the first post marathon run. It'll be a few easy TM miles.

Maureen: I keep wanting to call you "Mo". Every Maureen I've known has that as a nickname. How about you? All I can say about recovery is that it's not overrated. I'd say too much is better an too little. JMHO!

My 7 miles went much better than expected. I'm started to re-evaluate my run days after a LR. I was actually around 45 seconds slower than MP, which is a bit faster than a normal recovery run.

I can't fully analyze because Garmin Connect is down again, can't upload. That's 2 weekends in a row.

RA - Congrats to you and Mrs RA. I love those races where everything goes better than expected.

RD - Wow that is a fast 20, you sound ready for a marathon. Are you changing your goals?

Mdawg - I have been called Mo every now and again, not too often. By a stroke of chance I ran next to a "Mo" in the Boston marathon, nearly the entire way. The crowd would yell out "Go Mo" and "Go Maureen" because she wrote her name all over herself. It actually took me about 4 or 5 miles to realize I was running next to a Mo.

20 miles today with some pretty decent weather (55 dewpoint and mid 70s... good for what I've been getting). I realized today that if we actually get really good race weather, as in low humidity and 65 or under that I might be able to go at just over my half marathon PR pace. I did my last mile of my 20 miler at HMP (and 8 miles at what I thought was going to be MP). I felt like I could have kept going. I love Pfitz... all this struggling through terrible heat and humidity is becoming obviously worth it.

Maureen: Thanks for the car info! Another bad tire day on our van. I know we have hauling in our future, too, so it is hard to part with the van.Mdawg: bummer on the Diva race, but yay on Boston tix!Darth: Congrats on the 20!

I was 2nd from the gun. The lead guy was just gone. It's a 2 loop course so the 10k started a slightly different spot so we joined the 5k with the slow runners... I was dodging jogging strollers for 1/2 mile. Caught DW. She was going fast in the 5k. I continued chasing done 5k runners, almost caught the lead woman. Once I started the 2nd loop I was running solo and lost focus so my pace suffered for a couple of miles as I was feeling like crap. I picked it up for the last mile as couple of guys were closing on me. Held on to finish 2nd OA. Folks thought I'd won, mainly because I was 5 mins behind the winner!!

That's AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love the comment about being 5 minutes behind leader. Congrats to you and DW.

I did a side by side comparison, the Lexus fell short surprisingly. The Kia Sorento beat it on most categories, the Sportage beat it in some as well.

So Kia Sorento is the frontrunner at the moment, or iif the cheaper Sportage would be enough.

Have you driven both? I'm not a fan of the RX, although I've had a Lexus (IS350) since 2006, but it does drive well. I had a PT who said the gearbox on the Kia Sorento was a bit odd. Their cars looks pretty nice these days so maybe the overall experience has improved? I like the Ford Escape and also the Edge, if they still make that, after driving them as rentals. I also like the Audi Q7... LOL! Good luck with the shopping.

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